Example sentences of "[noun] make for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flatworms , tapeworms or threadworms make for lurid and colourful pictures in the horror section of Koi manuals , but their life cycle is invariably so complex that not all the vectors will be present in the pond . |
| 2 | What provision did the ATS make for discharged personnel of this nature ? |
| 3 | The very simplicity of the structure meant that even formal break-up might be only a temporary interruption since the survival of the essential units made for easy reconstruction . |
| 4 | The principal aim of the Juvenile ‘ Rules ’ was to continue ‘ the supervision of the boy or girl , when placed , with a view to his or her further education , both technical and humanistic ’ and to bring to bear on the life of the adolescents ‘ all the influences making for industrial efficiency , for enlightened citizenship and self-realisation ’ . |
| 5 | However , occasionally the spongs also bridge ravines making for brave crossings especially when you have no idea of their quality . |
| 6 | I have a bid to make for additional assistance , and I suggest that there are three means by which we could help people without work more than has been possible in the past . |
| 7 | The use of this type of fitting makes for easy cleaning and less cluttered bathrooms . |
| 8 | The proposals made for guaranteed work by the House of Commons Select Committee on Employment are also relevant to any scheme of providing a bridging mechanism between training on the one hand and permanent employment in the labour market on the other ( Special Employment Measures and the Long-term Unemployed , House of Commons Paper 99 , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | The Department of Education had accepted criticisms of the provision made for young children in ordinary elementary schools and had phased out arrangements for under-threes by 1904 ( in 1875 elementary schools accommodated 19,358 under-threes ) . |
| 10 | These may be formulated in more or less specific terms and the rather general issues that I have already outlined may be broken down into more narrowly focused questions and be dealt with in more than one module with provision made for explicit cross-reference . |
| 11 | Teaching , then , can be conceived of as a research activity whereby experimental techniques of instruction are designed to correspond with hypothetical principles of pedagogy , with provision made for mutual adjustment so as to bring validity of principle into as close an alignment as possible with the utility of technique . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that most space is given over to circulation and parking , with special provision made for particular needs ( Figure 6.45 ) , the area is still overwhelmed by the sheer volume of parked vehicles . |
| 13 | In the first 20 years of the Survey 's activities in Scotland , practically all of the central and southern parts of the country had been surveyed on the 6-inch scale and manuscript copies of the field maps made for public reference . |
| 14 | Broadcasting hours were doubled to twelve hours on weekdays and plans made for separate networks : the TBC was to have a ‘ National programme ’ in Swahili and a ‘ Second programme ’ in English . |
| 15 | capital allowances — which I think he may want — it could have a damaging effect on the quality of investment decisions , which are at present made for good , sound , commercial reasons ? |
| 16 | Calls made for secure unit |
| 17 | ‘ Them stuck in there , all they can see is bars , an' us saying ‘ Look at them , are n't they sweet ’ , and them with legs that can run a hundred miles and skin made for boiling heat standing there in cages in rain and snow and hailstorms and having babies that 've never seen the bush and the jungle and the step — ’ |
| 18 | Nor did the kingship make for singleminded action on the battlefield : Sparta found ways of getting round the more obvious difficulties of dual command , but a king could always be brought to book by the oligarchic element ( the gerousia or council of elders , which was responsible for political trials ) or by the democratic — the Assembly , which could fine a king and limit his powers ( cp. p. 161 for Agis in 418 ) . |
| 19 | Third : the years of plan making for British cities . |
| 20 | Trade-routes made for easy travel and communications between the land of Abram 's birth and Canaan . |
| 21 | In arts and social science particularly , this led to appointments made for political rather than academic reasons . |
| 22 | But the play 's compassion and mordant comedy make for compelling viewing . |
| 23 | Exhaustive observations make for exhausted observers , and the subsequent re-synthesis becomes quite mind-boggling . |
| 24 | What had been very much less a feature of Scottish society were bonds made for immediate political needs and opportunism , rather than to create lifelong and general obligations . |
| 25 | The continual jolting and the cramped conditions made for unexpected hazards . |
| 26 | Tailor made for Speedy that is n't it . |
| 27 | This should improve any predictions made for unknown or mis-recognised words . |
| 28 | The following activities and exercises may be pursued individually or in groups , and may provide a framework for individual study leading to personal or group presentations in seminars or workshops , dependent on the resources available and the provisions made for personal study in the course curriculum or re-orientation programme . |
| 29 | In addition to the provisions made for automatic operation , the ventilating system should be provided with the means for regular testing and should incorporate over-ride facilities to enable the ventilators to be manually operated under fire fighting conditions . |
| 30 | An opportunity to view provisions made for toothless conscripts — a hard rubber solution ( vulcanite ) was moulded to the gums and porcelain teeth attached . |